Portal:American Civil War

Documents:

• Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
• Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln

Battles:

• The Battle of Fredericksburg, 1886, James Longstreet
• Lee at Fredericksburg, 1886, James Horace Lacy
• Stonewall Jackson's Last Battle, 1886, James Power Smith
• The May Campaign in Virginia (July 1864) featured in Volume 14, Number 81 of The Atlantic Monthly.
• "Negroes of Savannah", New York Tribune, 13 February 1865
• The Retreat from Lenoir's and the Siege of Knoxville featured in Volume 18, Number 105 of The Atlantic Monthly. (July 1866)

Miscellaneous:

• British proclamation of neutrality in the American Civil War, 1861, Queen Victoria
• English Opinion on the American War by William Michael Rossetti
• George G. Meade's Pipe Creek Circular (1863)
• Encrypted message to John Pemberton, July 4, 1863, probably by John Grimes Walker
• Near Atlanta, Thursday, Aug. 25, 1864, B. C. Truman
• First Actions of Wounded Soldiers
• A narrative of service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry, 1912, Julian Wisner Hinkley
• The Story of Aunt Becky's Army-Life, (1867), Sarah A. Palmer
• The Wilderness by John Townsend Trowbridge in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1866)
• Alexander Keith memo

• Proclamation Declaring the End of the Insurrection, Andrew Johnson
• Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington
• The Johnson Party featured in Volume 18, Number 107 of The Atlantic Monthly. (September 1866)
• The President and his Accomplices featured in Volume 18, Number 109 of The Atlantic Monthly. (November 1866)
• The Usurpation featured in Volume 18, Number 108 of The Atlantic Monthly. (October 1866)
• Reconstruction, by Frederick Douglass featured in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, Number 110, pages 761–765. (December 1866).
• Three Months among the Reconstructionists featured in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, Number 100, (February 1866).

• Letter From John Pelham to Jefferson Davis, John Pelham
• Letter to Mrs. Bixby, Abraham Lincoln

• A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America, 1866, Jubal Anderson Early
• Letter to the Southern Historical Society, 1877, Armistead Lindsay Long
• Confederate Military History, 1899, Clement Anselm Evans
• History of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry, in the War Between the States, 1899, Richard Lee Tuberville Beale
• The Civil War in America, 1907, John Acton
• A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, 1918, James Ford Rhodes
• The parallel between the English and American civil wars (1910) by Charles Harding Firth

Suspension of Habeas Corpus:

• The Suspension of Habeas Corpus during the War of the Rebellion, Sydeny G. Fisher
  • ...Within the Armed Forces, Abraham Lincoln
  • ...Throughout the United States, Abraham Lincoln

Andersonville:

• Wirz Appeal to President Johnson, Henry Wirz
  • ...1864 Civil War Request for Pay, Lucy Sullivan
  • ...Winder's letter to Walthall, R. B. Winder

• Admiral David D. Porter, (Harper's)
• General Robert Edward Lee, (Harper's)
• “Six Weeks in Uniform” in Historical and biographical sketches, 1883, Samuel W. Pennypacker
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant
• Some Personal Recollections of General Sherman, 1894, S. M. H. Byers
• Robert E. Lee (Heroes Every Child Should Know), 1908, H. W. Mabie

• The Red Badge of Courage, 1895, Stephen Crane
• The Guns of Bull Run, 1914, Joseph Alexander Altsheler

• At Port Royal, 1864, John Greenleaf Whittier
  • ...In War Time, and Other Poems (collection)
• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, 1866, Herman Melville
• The Colored Soldiers, 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar
• "The Death of Slavery" featured in Volume 18, Number 105 of The Atlantic Monthly. (July 1866)

• United States
• Confederate States of America
• Quantrill's Raid into Kansas
• Slavery in the United States